02-03-2013, 08:18 PM
We have plenty of city laboratories that continue to be the 'system'. Chicago, Baltimore, Oakland, Detroit... all have spent hundreds of billions of dollars each over many decades... all spent on welfare, housing, work programs, crime prevention... you name it, they've spent exorbitant amounts of money to solve the problem. All in an effort to give the downtrodden and minorities a fair shake, and lift them up.
And all those cities are a monument to complete and abject failure of the 'system'. They are crime infested cesspools, and the poor are as worse off as they ever have been.
Yet the 'system' refuses to change, and continually does the same thing over and over again... somehow expecting a different result.
So Crash is right in a way... there isn't much good about a citizen having to gun down thugs. It's a harsh example of how the systems have failed over and over and over again.
That said, I'm glad the thugs got gunned down instead of the coach and his players. Given what is happening in Detroit, that was just as likely an outcome.
And all those cities are a monument to complete and abject failure of the 'system'. They are crime infested cesspools, and the poor are as worse off as they ever have been.
Yet the 'system' refuses to change, and continually does the same thing over and over again... somehow expecting a different result.
So Crash is right in a way... there isn't much good about a citizen having to gun down thugs. It's a harsh example of how the systems have failed over and over and over again.
That said, I'm glad the thugs got gunned down instead of the coach and his players. Given what is happening in Detroit, that was just as likely an outcome.